Hegar

Yep, I do still think this too. Nothing going on at the moment makes me think maybe I’m wrong and the rest of the world is well designed, rational and just.

The only quibble I have is I don’t think it’s more about elite-dominated societies, of which capitalism is just the current incarnation.

Of course!

On a completely unrelated topic, have you noticed that people with authority have a hard time admitting that they’re completely wrong?

For the first ~thirty years of my life the explanation for “why didn’t you do the thing?” that made the most sense to me was that the thing must not be worth doing, so it was everyone else’s problem for wanting it done in the first place.

Many people in positions of authority over me disagreed with this interpretation.

arcadey shooting galleries we have instead.

Yes. It felt very state fair bb gun shooting gallery.

the mission where you get drunk.

That was excellent. I couldn’t stop myself telling my wife and several equally disinterested coworkers about it.

I blocked like that on reddit but here there’s fewer users so I have a higher block threshold.

Plus I want to give people credit for choosing to be on the fediverse - that earns almost everyone a “well maybe you just had a bad day”.

I’ve been playing RDR2 for the first time. The story is very good, very cinematic. The pace of gameplay is often quite slow, certainly for hunting. And the level of attention to detail enhances the feel of realism … And then you headshot like 20-50 people ambushing you using bullet time and chowing down on 5 tins of chewing tobacco mid fight.

Capitalism isn’t what’s crashing out the United States, it’s these fucking monopolies and mergers.

I’ve got bad news for you about which form of social organization promotes the growth of monopolies.

There have been a handful of examples of breaking up monopolies but even then the general trend was still increasing consolidation of money and power in fewer and fewer hands.

AT&T was a great example of a step back from the capitalist hellscape we’re being pushed into, but there were two steps forward before it and another two after it.

Important story, thank you for sharing it but that’s not a website I’ll click to.

Save getting answers from the creators themselves

Is there a reason you’re not doing this? If I made income from you tube I’d want someone to draw my attention to this.

I’d think that a “hey, I noticed this weird thing, is that you delisting or is yt being shady?” type communication would be appreciated and help flesh out the picture.

Meyers-Briggs workshop

I don’t put much stock in business astrology grifters myself 😆. But I definitely agree that we adapt our behaviors to the people we’re with and situations we’re in. And that how we want to be seen by others and the expectations of others both have a strong impact on the behavior we exhibit. I would strongly disagree with that last third though - we are always who we really are.

The behaviors we’re reluctant or incapable of changing around others are no more us than the behaviours that we have stronger insight into and control over.

Yeah I don’t think “being yourself” is a thing that anyone has to worry about. You can only ever be yourself.

As you point out, we’re social mammals. We always exist in a social context and the behaviors that benefit us are highly dependent on that context.

It’s also perfectly natural for our identities to change over time. We don’t “discover the real me” we adopt new identities that benefit us more. That’s just how being a human is.

Not only did the two guys in charge run a ponzi scheme and steal $16M for their own use, but they claimed a cousin of one of them who was in on it had “over 10 years of experience managing multi-million-dollar companies”, when she was in fact a substitute primary school teacher and radio station promoter.

There must be so much of this kind of grifting going on at the moment that people are getting away with.

I’m playing it for the first time at the moment as well! But on ps4.

It took me a little bit to get used to the slow pace in parts - almost closer to a sim. I’d just finished Horizon: FW, so the speed of movement was a big change. Now I enjoy the extra time to smoke weed and head-cannon my character.

The writing and plotting are the real treasure of the game so far. I’ve enjoyed the scenery and the views well enough, but I rarely find myself impressed by graphics.

I was diagnosed with DCD but tested negative for autism.

However that test was 35+ years ago when I was a small child and my brother who’s in disability services research is convinced that me, dad and our sister would all meet the definition. Plus i think like half my close friends have admitted that they wondered or assumed I’m somewhere on the spectrum.

Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world

Identity too! That’s like the most important one I think. A lot of our worst behavior is in service of these completely made up identities which none-the-less help us secure access to resources.

I heard someone talking about how a lot of our rituals are these imaginary actions we take to reify these imaginary but vital institutions like identities and nation states.

I think that’s how human brains be. We’re already notoriously bad at correctly accounting for low-risk events (eg the lottery). Plus being constantly aware of the full myriad of threats we face would probably be debilitating.

If you haven’t had or seen a kind of accident your brain probably sees no compelling reason to account for it. My partner was lax about flu shots until she started working at a funeral home and saw how many people of all ages die of the flu. Now it’s a threat she has the awareness to accurately account for.

At my last job we had to do goals like that and I found it so frustrating. It was a constant cycle of: Have you made any progress towards [new goal]? No, I’m not interested in that anymore, I did [task] instead. Oh, okay… so what’s your [new goal] then?

it’s frustrating getting looked at funny for accepting that life is unpredictable and framing accordingly.

Yes, this! I always want to answer that you’d have to be a charlatan or delusional to claim that’s knowable information.

Like when people would ask ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’, and I presumed they meant ‘what are you interested in at the moment?’